List of Prime Ministers of Pakistan Since 1947 (With Photos)

Prime Minister’s post was created at the time of Pakistan’s independence. Since the post of Governor-General had not been abolished permanently at the beginning, Prime Minister initially did not have all executive powers. After the assassination of Pakistan’s first Prime Minister, Liaquat Ali Khan in 1951, there came seven different Prime Ministers within a period of six years and all of them were from Muslims League except Sir Feroz Khan Noon, who was from the Republican Party.

Then after the coup d’état from General Ayub Khan, Prime Minister’s post was abolished for a period of 13 years and 2 months up till 1971. There was a very short period of recreation of the post when Nurul Amin was appointed Prime Minister for merely 13 days and alongside him, General Yahya Khan also illegally made both Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Mujibur Rehman Vice Prime Ministers, but they never acquired these positions.

Subsequently, the posts had been abolished four more times, all when the military take over occurred. Currently, under the 18th Amendment passed in 2010, Prime Minister is the head of the state of Pakistan and holds more power than any other government official, including the President. Here is the complete list of Prime Ministers of Pakistan since 1947.

Status: Assumed Prime Minister’s role when his predecessor, Yousuf Raza Gilani was disqualified by the Supreme Court of Pakistan on contempt of court charges.

Political Party: Pakistan People’s Party

Total Duration: 9 Months, 3 Days

18. Mir Hazar Khan Khoso (1929)

Mir Hazar Khan Khoso

In Office: 25 March 2013 – 4 June 2013

Status: Caretaker Prime Minister.

Political Party: Independent

Total Duration: 2 Months, 10 Days

19. Mian Muhammad Nazwaz Sharif (1949)

Mian Nawaz Sharif

In Office: 5 June 2013 – 28 July 2017

Status: Elected Prime Minister.

Political Party: Muslim League (N)

Total Duration: 4 years, 1 month, 23 days

20. Shahid Khaqan Abbasi (1958)

In Office: 1 August 2017 – continued

Status: Caretaker Prime Minister.

Political Party: Muslim League (N)

Total Duration: Parliament elected as the PM and to serve a 50-day period.

Longest Time Served by a Prime Minister: Yousuf Raza Gilani (4 Years, 2 Months, 25 Days). Previously, Liaquat Ali Khan served the longest time as Prime Minister (4 Years, 2 Months, 2 Days). After aggregating Nawaz Sharif’s three terms, his duration totals up to 4 years, 13 months and 57 days or 5 years, 2 month and 27 days. After aggregating Benazir Bhutto’s two terms, her duration totals up to 4 years, 8 months and 21 days. Thus both Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto are the longest non-consecutively serving prime ministers.

Shortest Time Served by a Prime Minister: Nurul Amin (13 Days) during 1971 Bangladesh-Pakistan War

Political Party Having the Most Number of Serving Prime Ministers: 5 from Muslim League

Total Duration of Prime Ministers from Muslim League: 9 Years, 6 Months, 57 Days or in aggregation 9 Years, 7 Months, 27 Days

Total Duration of Democratic Prime Ministers: 30 Years, 51 Months, 254 Days or in aggregation 34 Years, 11 Months, 14 Days

Number of Times Prime Minister’s Post Abolished: 5 Times

Total Duration of the Post Abolishment: 24 Years, 24 Months, 53 Days or in aggregation 26 Years, 1 Month, 23 Days

LIAQAT ALAI KHAN was the best and great prime minister in the history of Pakistan… i love Sir Liaqat Ali Khan Sahib…
And there will be not any mother will born prime minister like “LIAQAT ALI KHAN”
Dhondo gay agr mulko mulko….!!!!

Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto is one of the national and famous leader after Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah. I appealed to the President and Prime Minister of Pakistan to give him the “Khitab” , (THE SECOND FOUNDER OF PAKISTAN),

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